--On 10. Januar 2006 22:56:17 -0500 Jeff Donsbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/10/06, Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:A single Python process also a multi-threaded Python application can never run on multiple CPUs.I believe that is an overly broad statement, not necessarily true in all cases. It really depends on the operating system's thread library that Python implements it's thread module on top of (as documented at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-thread.html) and how that system threading package schedules threads on the available CPUs. The real answer is "maybe; it depends".
As long as Python uses the GIL (global interpreter lock) Python will never take care of multiple CPU/cores.
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